Michael Oliver (real estate)
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Michael Oliver is an immigrant of Jewish descent, Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist. He was the founder of the micronation project the Republic of Minerva, a failed attempt to create a sovereign state in the South Pacific in 1972.
In the following decades, Oliver and his Phoenix Foundation were also involved in similar projects on the Bahamanian island of Abaco and in Vanuatu with the New Hebrides Autonomy Movement (MANH). He also published a manifesto of his libertarian beliefs.
Oliver is prohibited to enter in Vanuatu and his nation building projects seem to be on hiatus.